Kenosha

Kenosha is a city in and the county seat of Kenosha County, Wisconsin. Its name means "place of the pike" in Potawatomi, and the land was ceded to the United States in 1833. Settlers from New York then moved into Kenosha and established the community as "Pike Creek" in 1836, and it was renamed to Southport in 1837 and then to Kenosha in 1850. From 1902 to 1988, Kenosha was a center of the automobile manufacturing industry, and, from the early 1900s to the 1930s, Irish, Italian, Polish, and German immigrants arrived in the city to work in its factories. In 2018, Kenosha had a population of 100,164 people.